netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] r8169: allocate with GFP

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010111102390.11247@router.home>
Date:	Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:03:17 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able to
 sleep

On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> 8 in the <pagesperslab> column just says that : order-3 pages, even for
> small allocations.

Those allocations will fallback to smaller allocs if the page allocator
has trouble satisfying those requests.

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